Re: OT - Outlook Web access for Thunderbird. Just sharing

[Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> > Hello,  I just thought I would share this.
> >
> > Over a year ago, our corporation made the move to Exchange server 
> > without imap or pop access. :(  This upset many, including the Windows 
> > users.
> >
> > I tried to work with Evolution from the day I was forced to change but 
> > never got comfortable.  I hated the interface (to much like Outlook) 
> > and it was so slow to get mail.  As a compromise, I would get my mail 
> > with Evolution and export it to TB to read.
> >
> > Over the year I looked at other options.  I came across this nice 
> > little JAVA application that will get the mail through webDAV and save 
> > it as an mbox file.  Now I don't have to even touch Evolution to get 
> > my email.
> >
> > http://personal.inet.fi/atk/fetchexc/
> > fetchExc - fetches mail with webDAV from MS Exchange 2000/2003 servers
> >
> > I hope that something like this can be incorporated into TB.
> >
> > Hope it helps someone else.
>
> "webDAV" you say?
> That's interesting because old Hotmail accounts are able to communicate 
> using something that's called "WebDav". If it's the same one, then 
> WebMail/Hotmail TB extension might already work with Outlook Web Access.
> If it doesn't already work, I'm sure the developer/maintainer of that 
> extension can add this feature :)
>
> P.S. after a quick lookup, it looks like (s)he is already working on it. 
> See http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension

I was going to search the Thunderbird lists after I posted to the group 
but our web access went down.

Thanks for the link.  I will have to take a look.

At least I know that OWA is working for me.

Thanks for the link.


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Robin Laing